What started the war in Ireland????

Other links: First name of next murderous oppressor = Oliver. And James I's tongue was too big!! I wuv history!!

Highly insulting thread obv

Also, which war tbf

Highly insulting because nude spock misheard the lyrics to the celtic symphony.

One of the things, yes

Which reminds me I came across this again recently:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/lovespocky_zpsmsmomdky.jpg

IT was all started back in the 12th century by a gobshite named after a populist cider wasn't it?
Invited some of his Brit mates over to help settle some squabble he'd got himself involved in and they moved in permanently.
So 800 years later, after they'd continued exporting grain while half the population starved or fled to foreign climes we come to a point 100 years back now. Where while Blighty was trying to recruit its loyal supporters to get involved in an imperialistic foreign war some of them just said they'd had enough and took over the Post Office innit?

Oh & I haven't mentioned a major bunch of scots getting imported to the North in the 18th century and various resulting power balances at least partially based around religion. Though you do find taht some of the more famous Irish rebels were from unexpected churches, like.

Not just Scots were imported btw.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgDIuYuXUAAPKBg.jpg

this a pretty stark graphic of the effects of war, famine, pestilence, death and mass flight if ever you are going to see one. Big nations recovered from Barbarossa, The Great Leap Forward, 30 year war, Terry Wogan etc. But the ROI is still half the size of it's 1841 population.

Also, which war tbf

was also my first thought. those ring forts from the Neolithic were no joke.

big battle site round our way has a mention in the ancient oral traditions i keep telling imago to get on

Also, which war tbf

The war against the British Empire of course, but much later about a quarter of a mill died for them in The Totally Shite War.

oops ignore me aimless, you talking to dmac!

But the ROI is still half the size of it's 1841 population.

― calzino

wow this is a genuinely surprising fact

lol those pesky brits why we oughtta *shakes fist*

I'm probably a bit inaccurate when you factor in the creation of N Ireland, but the it was 8 and a half million in 1841 according to the census, so still quite a cataclysmic collapse of population.

tbf theres plenty in NI thatd quibble to be called irish so its a moot point